The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-11-11
"vvhat 4 ths matter. .Jobyn / ~.

what 4 the matter, .Job,n 1 ssid.
BEG pardon. SIR" he said, touching his
nair. Thought you were asleep, sir: and
! am sure you look as though you want It,
One might think from the look Of YOU thai
Jon had been having a night Of it."
!only groaned byway Of answer. Ihad.
indeed, been having q night Of It, such a. ]
hope never to have again.
."How Is Mr.. Leo, Jobi"
Much the same, sir. II he don't o
mend, he'll end, sir, and that's all about
It; though I must say that that there saw.
age Ustane do do her best for him, almost
like a baptized Christian. She is always
hanging round and looking utter him, and
Il l venture to interfere, it's awful to see
her; her hair seems to stand on end. and
she curses and swears away 1 nher heather
talk-at least I fancy she must be cursino
from the look Of her"
And what do you do theni"
II make her a polite bow, and I say,
Young woman, your position is n that /
don't quite understand, and can't recog-
nize. Let me tell you that I has a duty to
perform to my master as is incapacitated
by illness, and that l am going to perform
1t until am incapacitated too;' but sho
don't take no heed, not she-only curses
n swears away worse than ever. Last
night she put her hand under that sort of
niaht-shirt she wear and whips out a
knife with a kind of a curl in the Aladesso
I whips out my revolver, and we wa1ks
round and round each other, till at last
She bursts out laughing. It isn't nice
for q Christian man to have to
put up with from a savage, however hand.
she may be; but it is what people
must expect as is fools enough" Dob laid
great emphasis on the ~"fools'') ITO come
to such II place to look for things no man
is meant to find. It's a Judgment on us,
sir-that's my opinion; and 1, for n is of
opinion that the judgment isn't half done
yet; and when 1t is done, we shall be done
too, and just stop in these beastly caves
with the ghosts and the corpses for once
and all. And now, sir, I must be seeing
about I4eo's broth, II that wildcat will let
me-; n perhaps you would like to get -
BIZ, because it's past nine o'clock.
Jobs remarks were not Of an exactly
cheering order to q man who had passed
such a night as / had; and what is more,
they had the weight of truth. Taking one
thing with another, it appeared to me to
an utter impossibility that we should
from the place where we were.
Surprising that Leo recovered, and suppos.
that She would let us go, which was
exceedingly doubtful, and that she did not
blast" us in some moment of veXation.
and that we were not hot-potted by tho
A%mallagger, it would be quite impossible
for us to find our way across the network
Of marshes which, stretching for scores
md scores of miles, formed a stronger and
MORE impossible f%ortification round the
Amahaggcr households than any
could be built or designed by man.
No, there was but onc thing to do-face it
-; and, speaking for my w part, l was
intensely Interested in the whole weird
ytory that, so fur as l was concerned. not
outstanding the shattered state of my
nerves, l asked nothing better, even If my
llfe paid forfeit TO my curiosity.
Ter 1 had dressed myself l passed into
GU aating, or rather cmbalming, chamber,
and had some food. which was, as before,
brought to me by tho girl mutcs. When
l had finished l Went and saw poor Leo,
who was quite OFF his head, and did not
know me. Iaskcd Ustanc how she
thought he was, but she only shook her
head and began to crya little. Evidently
her hopes were small; and 1 then and there
made up my mind that, if it We're in q
way possible, l would get She to come
500 him. Surely size ,yo-ia = hi
She chose; Mt my rate, she said she could.
Whilst 1 was in the room, Billali entered,
and also shook his head.
"Hc will die at night" he said.
"God forbid, my fathcr,"I answered and
away with q heavy heart.
"Shc-lUho -must-bc-obcycd commands thy
presence, my Baboon," said the old mar
rs soon as VIC got to the curtain, sbut, oh,
my dear son, be more careful. Yesterday
[ made sure in my heart that She would
blast thee when thou didst not crawl upon
stomach before her. She is sitting in
the great hall to do justice upon those who
would have smittcn thee and the Lion.
on, my son; come swiftly"
1 turned, and followed him down the
passage, and when we reached the great
a v saw that many A%lnahaggcr,
some robed, and some merely clad in tile
sweet simplicity Of n leopard skin, were
hurrying up it. We mingled with the
and walked up the enormous, and
kAAASS0 iiO AAISAiALiit1OAC CuNG. kAiIlilo
way up it the walls were deliberately scull,.
tured, and every twenty PAGES or SO pas.
opened out of it at right angles, lead.
ing, Billali told me, to tombs followed in
the rock by 1.-The people who were before"
Nobody visited those tombs now. he said:
and I must say that my heart rejoiccd
when 1 thought of the opportunities OF
research that opened out be.
fore me.
At last we came to the head of the cave,
where there was a rock dais almost exactly
to the one on Which we had been
so furiousiy attacked, u fact that proved ia.
that these dais must have been used NJ.
affairs, probably fpsfhe celebration of re,
ligious csremoiaskan9nore especially Of
connectadu flr the fnterment of the
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